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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject: Re: Running cmd programs in cygwin / rxvt
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 07:15:46 -0700
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Brian Dessent wrote:

> overbored wrote:
>
>> There are some cmd shell programs that don't run well in rxvt. Most 
>> noticeably, they don't always immediately write out their output. 
>> They seem to work fine in the default cmd window though (doesn't 
>> matter if it's in cmd or in bash). Does anybody know what the problem 
>> is here, and how to fix it? Thanks in advance.
>
> What you're seeing is caused by the output of the program going 
> through a tty (or pty as the case may be.) When you run it from a 
> straight cmd.exe it's not using tty code (unless you have CYGWIN=tty 
> set.) From my meagre knowledge of the subject it has to do with the 
> program not explicitly flushing stdout (or not knowing that it needs 
> to as this is usually not required under windows.)

Is there a CYGWIN setting to tell rxvt not to use ptys?
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